National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), an apex organization of marketing cooperatives for agricultural produce in India, under Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India is taking following steps in order to ensure adequate availability of onion in the consumer market at reasonable prices. NAFED will import onion from other countries at best rates and offer the same for domestic consumption in the country.
The apex organization will procure 4 to 5 MT onion per day from mandis of Rajasthan directly through farmers and APMCs and supply the same through its retail outlets and mobile vans in Delhi besides undertaking wholesale auction of the stock through Azadpur APMC Delhi.
Similarly, it will also procure onion at best prevailing rates from mandis of Lasalgaon/ Pimpalgaon at Nasik district in state of Maharashtra and offer the same to all state marketing and supply federations at a nominal service charge of 2%.